Overview
- Kurt Russell said his first movie, It Happened at the World's Fair (1963), required him to kick Elvis Presley in the shin.
- He recalled that Presley wore a protective pad and that he performed the kick about ten times before Presley signed off on the take.
- Russell explained that the scene involved Presley’s character paying a child 50 cents to create a reason to see a nurse played by Joan O’Brien.
- He recounted that Presley praised his father Bing Russell’s hat style and later wore it similarly in the 1969 Western Charro.
- Russell later portrayed Presley in the 1979 Elvis: The Movie, with his father playing Vernon Presley.